The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense star-forming regions, revealing that Earth-like planets can form even in ...

Dust disks around stars where exoplanets form have been imaged for years. However, they become darker and elude research – ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

Dr. Jane Huang's research on planet formation in harsh environments, particularly within the Sigma Orionis cluster, offers surprising insights into the universality of planet formation. In a recent ...

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...

Have you ever found something unexpected in your hamburger? Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...

Hit-and-run collisions between embryonic planets during a critical period in the early history of the Solar System may account for some previously unexplained properties of planets, asteroids, and ...